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Fandom far afield
When was the last time you participated in fandom on the internet not through a journaling site? I don't really mean posting fanfic to something like fanfiction.net, unless you also post and discuss in the forums there. I mean discussion, meta, the posting of fanfic, the making of graphics, etc, all being share through a medium other than LJ, DW, Insane Journal, JournalFen, etc. This would be a forum, website, mailing list . . . if you did something like a fanzine, not online, I'm interested in that too.
1) What fandom was it?
2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc)
3) When was this?
4) Are you still active in that fandom?
5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site?
6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places?
7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation?
8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place?
9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?)
10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site?
11) Which medium do you prefer?
If it sounds like I'm doing a study, I'm not. I'm just dabbling around in this other fandom, the fen of which seems mainly to congregate around a forum rather than playing on LJ/DW. I'm wondering how many people share my experiences there. Forums used to be my main method of fandom access. I was comfortable in them and found LJ inconvenient and not very suited to my style. I became used to it because I decided a lot of cool people were here...and now I'm beginning to think it's the only way!
1) What fandom was it?
2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc)
3) When was this?
4) Are you still active in that fandom?
5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site?
6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places?
7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation?
8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place?
9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?)
10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site?
11) Which medium do you prefer?
If it sounds like I'm doing a study, I'm not. I'm just dabbling around in this other fandom, the fen of which seems mainly to congregate around a forum rather than playing on LJ/DW. I'm wondering how many people share my experiences there. Forums used to be my main method of fandom access. I was comfortable in them and found LJ inconvenient and not very suited to my style. I became used to it because I decided a lot of cool people were here...and now I'm beginning to think it's the only way!
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Yahoo groups is alive and surprisingly well. I last used it ten minutes ago, in the Lancer fandom which is thriving there and struggling very hard here on LJ.
(1) Lancer (1968 western)
(2) Yahell
(3) Daily
(4) Yes
(5) It's well established on Yahoo lists and has never migrated to a journalling site. When I created
(6) That's fandom dependent. My other two fandoms - SGA and original series BSG migrated here to LJ years ago.
(7) Yahoo groups is clumsy and unsophisticated compared to a journalling site. You can't code, you can't use pictures in a post, it's harder to keep conversation threads together but the actual things I do - post fic, comment on other people's fic, discussions - remains the same. I think it's harder on Yahoo to keep track of a discussion, though, and the fen tend to be fairly determined and focused individuals as a result. Some of them scarily so. There is less 'personal' posting - my journal's a mix of fic and stuff about me, but that doesn't work on Yahoo.
(8) A little more traditionalist, maybe.
(9) Depends on the yahoo list. I'm a member of 14 different Lancer Yahoo groups, only one of which is slash oriented. The fandom's two characters are brothers, but unlike with Supernatural, there's no incest genre. So to talk about slash there will result in some distaste!
(10) I don't think there was a real difference. It still depends on you(generic you) posting and responding and getting to be known.
(11) Journalling site. I prefer to post properly coded fics with headers and I much prefer keeping all the comments with the post.
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I have the full set of DVDs and he is just *amazing*.
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Do you think this is a timing thing? Like it was around before journaling sites got big, and it's just not picking up its skirts and moving?
I think it's harder on Yahoo to keep track of a discussion, though, and the fen tend to be fairly determined and focused individuals as a result. Some of them scarily so.
Oh, this is interesting! I've been wondering whether there's something in certain people that makes them like certain mediums, and whether that has any relation to which fandoms they like (and whether that has any relation to whether they like slash). It does seem like a journal vs a mailing list requires a certain personality type. Hm.
Thanks so much for your answers.